Pendant Bull head PEN-0017

Pendant – Bull head PEN-0017

By Hendrickx, Stan

Mediq
, Cemetery 79, Tomb 76.
1908–1909 : Archaeological Survey of Nubia excavation.

Aswan, Nubian Museum, 181.

Date : Naqada III

Dated after description of cemetery and tomb by Firth (1912: 136).

Material : Serpentine (Carved)

Preservation : Complete

Description

Stylised bull's head amulet with a horizontal perforation at the back. The horns are not indicated. The eyes are drilled.

Firth 1912: pl. 37a.17.

References

Firth, C. M.

1912

The archaeological survey of Nubia: report for 1908–1909. Cairo

, I: 136; II: pl. 37a.17.

Hendrickx, S.

2002

Bovines in Egyptian predynastic and early dynastic iconography, in: Hassan, Fekri A. (ed.), Drought, food and culture: ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory. New York & London

, 308, app. F, no. 17.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0017, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0017. retrieved 10 January 2025.

Related person

Firth, Cecil Mallaby

Excavation director